Plaid Cymru AM Chris Franks welcomed the Hirwaun Mothers’ Union to the National Assembly in Cardiff Bay.
Over 500,000 visitors have visited the National Assembly last year, according to the latest report by National Assembly for Wales Commission.
Chris Franks said: “I was very pleased to welcome Hirwaun Mother’s Union to the Senedd. More and more citizens [...]...
Welsh Affairs Committee
On Monday 17 December 2007 Mr Stephen Crabb MP was discharged from the Committee and was replaced by Mark Pritchard MP.
From a full transcript of Mr Hain´s speech to the Welsh Grand Committee:
Welsh Labour MPs helped to design and deliver the Government of Wales Act and it will be all Welsh MPs´ constituents who will be affected by the resultant Assembly Measures.
Part of the process envisaged by the Act involves the Welsh Affairs Committee at Westminster in scrutinising the proposed Orders before they become law.
Mr Mark Pritchard is elected from an English constituency. He does not represent anyone living in Wales yet he will have the power to decide on Welsh only laws.
The Welsh Affairs Committee consists of 11 Members of Parliament, of whom the quorum...
NDM3617 is a Motion for Debate on 20 June 2007 in the Senedd.
NDM3617
William Graham (South Wales East)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to:
a) Draw up a programme of action in order to achieve annual carbon-equivalent emissions reductions of 3% per year by 2011 and set up an independent body to monitor the Government’s progress;
b) Publish and implement a Renewable Energy Strategy with the aim of achieving a renewable energy target of 20% by 2015, with a greater emphasis on the diversity of technologies available;
c) Review the TAN8 planning guidance policy to ensure it promotes the full range of renewable energy sources.
An Amendments to this Motion has been tabled by Jocelyn Davies (South Wales East)
Adding a new...
Once upon a time I went for a chat with someone in the assembly's Cathays Park building.I had to wait a while before the meeting, so I sat in the lobby. It's quite a grand place actually - lots of marble and columns and that kind of guff.Anyway, my most vivid memory of this little spell was sitting next to a giant screen which, after a while, began broadcasting live coverage of the latest plenary session.The receptionist, clearly fed up with the likes of Janice Gregory and Eleanor Burnham breaching her peace, stood up and turned it off. And that was that. Even the assembly can't stand to watch the assembly.So it's no surprise, then, that it may soon be impossible to watch proceedings live on television. S4C2 currently broadcasts those thrilling debates each Tuesday to Thursday when the...
I am a concerned citizen. I want to know more about the way Wales is governed. Last night, I saw the Education Minister on telly, dressed as a giant teddy bear and giving out sweets to children while announcing her latest policy. I want to know how it affects me.So, I go online. A google search for 'Department for Education' brings up a pretty swanky website. Must be England's. I qualify the search with 'Welsh Assembly' and up pops a dry, text-heavy site. I give up.Next day, I hear about another new policy. This time it's about social justice. I know the website will be crap, so I search for some reaction in the papers instead. A similar policy in England has the full analytical weight of the English press to contend with. In Wales, though, Martin Shipton is writing about something else,...
Any apology made on behalf of the Welsh Nation must first be passed by resolution at the Senedd alone and then appropriately communicated by the First Minister.
No such resolution empowering Peter Hain to apologise on behalf of the Welsh Nation about slavery has been passed.
Yet Peter Hain does so.
I am here on behalf of both Northern Ireland and Wales to say that we've had our part to play in the slave trade," Hain told the broadcaster.
"We acknowledge that, we take responsibility for it, and we now are going to try and at least say that historical legacy must be recognised.
"We say sorry for it."
Does Peter Hain believe he gets his authority to speak on behalf of the Welsh Nation from a higher authority than the Welsh people?
When will Peter Hain apologise on behalf of the British...
Back in the day it was noticed that while the English and the Scots have a European Parliament Office, Wales does not.
Jill Evans MEP raised this issue at an European and External Affairs Committee meeting in the Senedd.
Therefore, we have to look at how we, and Wales, can influence this process. I would like to suggest some concrete but fairly simple measures that could be taken. First, a physical presence is important. Since my election, I have campaigned for us to have a European Parliament office in Wales. There is one in Scotland and one in England, and we have discussed this matter previously in committee. These offices do a good job, alongside the European Commission offices, providing information and a focus for the parliament, which is the only democratically elected part of...
